Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guild Shop clause a paper does not have to fire old employes who refuse to join the Guild, but this is not the case of the rebels in question. They were once members of the Guild and according to the Guild they still are, for although three of them resigned from the Guild in writing, Guild bylaws do not allow anyone to resign...
...last Olympics when he permitted the use of Soldiers Field for the tryouts of colored track stars and thereby gave them a chance to enter the Berlin games. Then when race prejudice showed up at the Games themselves, he was the sole member of the governing board to resign in protest...
...public's" representatives were: Chairman Clarence Addison Dykstra, president of University of Wisconsin, director of the draft (a job he will resign), onetime city manager of Cincinnati, son of a Dutch minister; Frank Porter Graham, president of University of North Carolina, Southern-born, a fiery and apostolic liberal; and William Hammatt Davis, New York City patent attorney, former chairman of the New York State Board of Mediation. Wild-haired, level-headed Mr. Davis rehearsed for his new job by sitting in judgment on the New York City bus strike, which was ended last week...
...Angeles draft board had previously found him 10 lb. underweight-TIME, Feb. 17). Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's grandson Henry Stuart Hughes quit the Brown University faculty (history), joined the 103rd Field Artillery from Rhode Island. Draft Prospect William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, promised to resign his presidency of the New York Stock Exchange when he is called in May (see p. 78). Jaded, faded Jackie Coogan, 26, got his Hollywood board to draft him ahead of his normal order, reported at Fort Ord, Calif., passed his medical (see cut), and put in for transfer...
...commission in the Department of Justice and I have never taken a drink in the United States since I carried that commission, and will not." He was then Assistant to the Attorney General. I said to him: "That's a terrible price to pay for a commission. Resign and come on and take a drink." He said: "No, I am sorry but I can't go." Somehow I do not recall any other man during those turbulent years who respected that statute as did Colonel Donovan...